EX-99.1 2 exhibit99-1.htm PRESENTATION exhibit99-1.htm
2008 EEI Financial Conference
Patrick J. Goodman - Senior Vice President and CFO
 
 

 
Forward-Looking Statements
 This report contains statements that do not directly or exclusively relate to historical facts. These statements are “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can typically
be identified by the use of forward-looking words, such as “may,” “could,” “project,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,”
“continue,” “intend,” “potential,” “plan,” “forecast,” and similar terms. These statements are based upon MidAmerican’s current
intentions, assumptions, expectations and beliefs and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other important factors. Many of these
factors are outside MidAmerican’s control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
MidAmerican’s forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others:
  general economic, political and business conditions in the jurisdictions in which MidAmerican’s facilities are located;
  changes in governmental, legislative or regulatory requirements affecting MidAmerican or the electric or gas utility,
 pipeline or power generation industries;
  changes in, and compliance with, environmental laws, regulations, decisions and policies that could increase operating and
 capital improvement costs, reduce plant output and delay plant construction;
  the outcome of general rate cases and other proceedings conducted by regulatory commissions or other governmental and
 legal bodies;
  changes in economic, industry or weather conditions, as well as demographic trends, that could affect customer growth and
 usage or supply of electricity and gas or MidAmerican’s ability to obtain long-term contracts with customers;
  changes in the residential real estate brokerage and mortgage industries that could affect brokerage transaction levels;
  changes in prices and availability for both purchases and sales of wholesale electricity, coal, natural gas, other fuel sources
 and fuel transportation that could have a significant impact on generation capacity and energy costs;
  the financial condition and creditworthiness of MidAmerican’s significant customers and suppliers;
  changes in business strategy or development plans;
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Forward-Looking Statements
  availability, terms and deployment of capital, including severe reductions in demand for investment-grade commercial
 paper, debt securities and other sources of debt financing and volatility in the London Interbank Offered Rate, the base
 interest rate for MidAmerican and its subsidiaries’ credit facilities;
  performance of MidAmerican’s generation facilities, including unscheduled outages or repairs;
  risks relating to nuclear generation;
  the impact of derivative instruments used to mitigate or manage volume and price risk and interest rate risk and changes in
 the commodity prices, interest rates and other conditions that affect the value of the derivatives;
  the impact of increases in healthcare costs, changes in interest rates, mortality, morbidity and investment performance on
 pension and other postretirement benefits expense, as well as the impact of changes in legislation on funding requirements;
  changes in MidAmerican’s and its subsidiaries’ credit ratings;
  unanticipated construction delays, changes in costs, receipt of required permits and authorizations, ability to fund capital
 projects and other factors that could affect future generation plants and infrastructure additions;
  the impact of new accounting pronouncements or changes in current accounting estimates and assumptions on financial
 results;
  the ability to obtain governmental and shareholder approvals for the acquisition of Constellation Energy or to satisfy other
 conditions to the acquisition on the terms and expected time-frame or at all;
  MidAmerican’s ability to successfully integrate future acquired operations into its business;
  other risks or unforeseen events, including litigation and wars, the effects of terrorism, embargos and other catastrophic
 events; and
  other business or investment considerations that may be disclosed from time to time in MidAmerican’s filings with the
 United States Securities and Exchange Commission or in other publicly disseminated written documents.
 MidAmerican undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. The foregoing review of factors should not be construed as exclusive.
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MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
Energy Assets
 7 million electric and
 natural gas customers
 worldwide
 16,800 miles of interstate
 natural gas pipeline with
 approximately 6.9 bcf
 capacity
 17,854 megawatts of
 owned generation
 23.0 percent of
 generation capacity is
 renewable or noncarbon
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 Own and operate high-quality, asset-based businesses
 Focus on balanced outcomes that deliver long-term
 sustainability
 Identify internal growth opportunities and
 acquisitions
 Operate to six business principles
  Customer Service, Employee Commitment, Regulatory Integrity,
 Environmental Respect, Operational Excellence, Financial Strength
Strategy
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Berkshire Equity Commitment
 Berkshire provides MEHC with a $3.5 billion equity
 commitment from ‘AAA’ rated parent
  Access to capital even in times of utility sector and general market stress;
  No other utility has this quality of explicit financial support
  Commitment can only be drawn for two purposes:
  Paying MEHC parent debt when due
  Funding the general corporate purposes and capital requirements of
 MEHC’s regulated subsidiaries
 Future M&A activity will be funded separate from this
  equity commitment
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MEHC’s diversity coupled with its 100% reinvestment of free cash flow
and access to equity capital from Berkshire under any market condition
clearly differentiates the quality of MEHC’s credit from its peers
 
 

 
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Constellation Energy Group Transaction
 MidAmerican funds already committed
  At the time of signing the merger agreement, MidAmerican issued $1 billion
 of 11% Trust Preferred securities to Berkshire
  Proceeds of the issuance were used to purchase $1 billion of Constellation
 Energy’s 8% Series A Convertible Preferred stock
  Entered an agreement which allows Constellation to sell to MidAmerican
 certain generating assets at predetermined prices for up to $350 million of cash
 Transaction funding at closing
  MidAmerican will finance the $4.7 billion transaction through the issuance of:
  Approximately $2.7 billion of its common stock to Berkshire and potentially to its other
 existing shareholders
  $2.0 billion in 11% Trust Preferred securities to Berkshire
 Anticipate closing in second quarter of 2009
  Shareholder and regulatory approvals required
 Constellation will be wholly-owned by MEHC
  BGE will be ring-fenced
 
 

 
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Baltimore Gas & Electric
Business Overview
  Electric & gas distribution regulated by
 Maryland PSC
  Headquartered in Baltimore
  1.2 million electric customers
  0.6 million gas customers
  $5.8B total assets
  $1.7B common shareholder’s equity
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Data as of 12/31/2007
 
 

 
Constellation Energy Generation Fleet
PJM
65% MWhs
New York
33% MWhs
West
2% MWhs
Predominantly nuclear and fossil
  MW % of MWhs
Nuclear 3,869 43%
Fossil 4,830 53%
Renewable  351  4%
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CA
NV
AZ
UT
WY
OR
WA
MT
CO
ID
PacifiCorp
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Business Overview
  1.7 million customers in six western
 states
  10,425 megawatts of owned generation
 capacity
  15,700 miles of transmission lines
Major Accomplishments
  Rate case settlements
  Since acquisition by MEHC, projected
 to have added 760.6 MW of renewable
 wind generation by year-end 2008
  Chehalis 520 MW natural gas-fired
 generation plant acquired in September
 2008
  Executed an EPC agreement to build the
 first segment of the Gateway
 Transmission Expansion Project
 
 

 
MidAmerican Energy
IA
IL
KS
NE
SD
WI
MN
MO
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Business Overview
  1.4 million customers in four
 Midwestern states
  6,367 megawatts of owned generation
 capacity
  2,180 miles of transmission lines
Major Accomplishments
  Projected to have 1,284 MW of
 renewable wind generation by year-end
 2008 (623 MW placed in service in
 2008)
MidAmerican Energy
Service Territory
Major Generating Facilities
Wind Projects
 
 

 
Northern Natural Gas
MN
WI
IA
SD
NE
KS
OK
TX
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Business Overview
  15,100 miles of natural gas pipeline
  5.1 million decatherms per day of
 market area design capacity, plus
 2.0 million decatherms per day field
 area capacity
Major Accomplishments
  Northern Lights Project - growth in
 market-area transportation business:
 2007 400,000 Dth/d
 2008  88,000 Dth/d
  8 bcf Redfield gas storage expansion is
 available for the 2008 injection season
 and final completion will occur by
 year-end 2008
 
 

 
Kern River
CA
NV
AZ
UT
WY
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Business Overview
  1,680 miles of natural gas pipeline
  1.7 million decatherms per day of
 natural gas to markets in Utah, Nevada,
 California and Arizona
Major Accomplishments
  Rate case settlement filed, subject to
 FERC approval
  Successfully completed 2010
 Expansion open season for
 145,000 Dth/day, subject to FERC
 approval
  Successfully completed Apex
 Expansion open season for
 266,000 Dth/day, subject to FERC
 approval
 
 

 
CE Electric UK
U.K.
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Business Overview
  3.8 million customers in northeast
 England
  58,000 miles of distribution lines
Accomplishments
  Preparing for 2010 distribution price
 review outcome
  Standard & Poor’s upgrade in
 August 2008
 NEDL and YEDL  A-
 CE UK Funding Co. BBB+
Northern Electric service territory
Yorkshire Electricity service territory
 
 

 
Financial Results
 
 

 
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 Walter Scott, Jr.
 David Sokol
 Greg Abel
A3/A-/A
U.K. Regulated
Electric
Distribution
A3/A-/A
U.K. Regulated
Electric
Distribution
“Forever is our holding period” - Berkshire ownership philosophy
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(1) Diluted ownership
(2) PacifiCorp ratings are senior secured
 
 

 
MEHC Growth Summary
CAGR = 20.6%
CAGR = 22.6%
CAGR = 28.9%
CAGR = 19.0%
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1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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Segment Information ($ in millions)
 
 

 
1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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Segment Information ($ in millions)
 
 

 
1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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Segment Information ($ in millions)
 
 

 
Segment Information ($ in millions)
1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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Segment Information ($ in millions)
1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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Segment Information ($ in millions)
1) The remaining differences between the segment amounts and the consolidated amounts described as “Corporate/other” relate
 principally to intersegment eliminations for operating revenue and, for the other items presented, to (i) corporate functions,
 including administrative costs, interest expense, corporate cash and investments and related interest income and (ii)
 intersegment eliminations
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